#diy manifesto

[bloodsadx]

milk and blood shirts + tanks restock up on my website store.blood.gay

shirt is based on my comic lg3.lonely.gay

#love gaiden #love gaiden 3 #manifesto #pimple #toenail #clothes #screenprinting #diy

[drakey-wakey]

streetlight patch idea ramblings under the cut bc this got long

i have an idea cooking in my brain for a somewhere in the between back patch that i think would be fucking wicked

unfortunately all my fav streetlight lyrics are SOOOOO LONG i worry it would make for an awkward patch like. most lyric patches i see have like 2 line lyrics and im out here like i cant cut any lines off these lyrics or it wouldn't HIT THE SAME !!!

like fr all my cool streetlight patch ideas are so long im worried itll be awkward or not look right with all the words but like !!!!!!! i need them. the quotes

i wanna do the sitb chorus

"so you were born, and that was a good day,

someday you will die and that is a shame

but somewhere in the between,

you lived a life of which we all dream

and nothing and no-one will ever take that away"

im thinking that with like a baby deer corpse with mushrooms growing out of it would be neat or something like that bc i am a mushroom freak

the other one i rly wanna do is a the hands that thieve chorus quote

"I dont care if i lose, because my heros did too,

they shouted court should be adjourned because the jury are fools

and the judge can't decipher

his left from his right

or his right from his wrong"

like MAN what a baller quote that would be for a back patch

anyways lmk if anyone has suggestions or input on this hehe

#let draco say fuck #streetlight manifesto #slm #punk patches #patch diy

[reinmuthia]

Manifiesto del Colectivo Reinmuthia

Marín, febrero de 2023

La era de la información ha reestructurado por completo la forma en que las personas jóvenes se relacionan con su entorno, con su comunidad, consigo mismos, y con su obra. En la última década, la rápida evolución de la sociedad hacia un destino incierto, los avances de las inminentes guerras dentro y fuera de nuestras comunidades, las crisis económicas, el progreso tecnológico a ritmos vertiginosos, la pandemia de la Covid-19, la reestructuración política y social del mundo y la amenaza medioambiental han supuesto la instauración de una sensación general de angustia y confusión. Como consecuencia, especialmente entre los jóvenes con ciertas inquietudes artísticas, se ha extendido una tendencia al aislamiento y el individualismo, creando en la escena alternativa una sensación de hostilidad que impide la creación y la organización de proyectos comunes.

Así, sostenemos que necesitamos organizarnos en colectivos que defiendan y promuevan la creatividad y movilización artístico-cultural de las personas en edad adolescente y universitaria. No hablamos de pequeñas comunidades cerradas y exclusivas que se rodeen de un aire de superioridad intelectual, sino de grandes asociaciones que traten de captar activamente a nuevos miembros con ideas frescas y contrastadas.

La incapacidad de renovarse más allá de su tiempo impidió el avance de nuestros predecesores. Necesitamos urgentemente una nueva concepción del arte y la creación de un movimiento cultural, un renacimiento de las culturas urbanas que se oponga a la consolidada obsesión estética de nuestro tiempo. La nueva vanguardia no será un movimiento academicista que se enclaustre en las paredes de los campus, motivada por un impulso hormonal adolescente. Al contrario: buscamos captar el potencial creativo de las personas de a pie, independientemente de quiénes sean o de dónde vengan. No consideramos que las vanguardias pertenezcan ni de lejos a una élite intelectual: la contra-cultura tiene que alzarse desde abajo de manera orgánica, funcionar como un apoyo mutuo entre todos los artistas. Por tanto, consolidamos el trabajo de nuestra organización sobre las siguientes bases:

Las instituciones no tienen en cuenta los intereses de la juventud, especialmente de sus colectivos minoritarios, si estos no pueden servir para su posterior beneficio político. Nuestra labor social en Reinmuthia es presionar a las instituciones locales hacia la creación de nuevos espacios destinados expresamente a la juventud, sin más motivo que mejorar la calidad de vida de la comunidad. Asimismo, pretendemos dar cobertura e información acerca de las actividades culturales y sociales destinadas a los jóvenes que se realicen en nuestra zona, como manera de asegurar la convivencia y relación de la comunidad adolescente pontevedresa.

El objetivo principal de Reinmuthia es funcionar como una plataforma donde compartir y visibilizar proyectos artísticos de cualquier ámbito, creados íntegramente por adolescentes y personas jóvenes. Nuestra acción se centra principalmente en la zona de Pontevedra, la comarca del Morrazo (y zonas contiguas) y Vigo. Buscamos servir como inspiración y red de comunicación para todos los artistas pontevedreses de la escena underground.

Nuestra unión es nuestra fuerza. Por ello, pretendemos difundir los valores de colaboración, solidaridad y amistad entre nuestra comunidad. No hay lugar para la competitividad inapropiada en una escena que construímos entre todos, donde la música, la literatura y el arte surgen de la puesta en común y ayuda mutua de nuestros artistas. La negatividad y falta de comunicación entre artistas de un mismo ámbito y región es una lacra para nuestro potencial y nos impide acceder a numerosas oportunidades e ideas que nacen de la colaboración.

De esta forma, la juventud vanguardista pontevedresa se organiza para unirse y colaborar bajo el sello del colectivo artístico Reinmuthia. Creemos desde el fondo de nuestro espíritu en el profundo sentimiento de unidad y ambición que une a esta generación de artistas, y nos comprometemos a protegerla independientemente de las circunstancias, por el futuro del arte y de nuestro mundo. Actiones secundum fidei.

#manifiesto #manifesto #fanzine #galicia #counter culture #diy #pontevedra #punk

[morikotto]

that ouroboros steak cell culture kit is some fucking pretentious vegan art installation and i’m actually devastated about it

#i wanted a goddamn tissue culture diy kit and you gave me a boring manifesto about ‘meat bad’ #fuck you i hope you have a bad rest of your life

[geoffrard]

My Chemical Romance, Hardcore Sexual Repression, and the Lemon Stealing Whore

[Content warning for non-graphic references to pornography, sex, sexual violence, and negative attitudes towards sex work. There is no explicit nudity but you might not want to read this in front of your boss. All images have descriptions in alt text. See sources here. Read this essay on my Dreamwidth here.]

It’s the setup of a joke: Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Matt Pelissier, and a porn actress huddle around a leather couch in a dingy room as a camera rolls. The actress, a young and bright-eyed Joanna Angel, asks each member of My Chemical Romance in the room, “Do you guys watch porn?”

Most of us have seen the interview. If not, stop and watch it now, because nothing else I say will make sense otherwise. (And here, just for you, I’ve reuploaded the video with at least 10% more pixels. Watch below, or read a transcript here.)

The fact that My Chemical Romance, whose faces have decorated shirts at Hot Topic for over fifteen years, whose songs have saved lives and inspired memes, who all have wives and children, would end up associated with an alt porn website like Burning Angel often baffles fans watching the interview for the first time. 

For example, see these comments left on the original video uploaded to YouTube: 

These comments, though more than a few years old, generally represent how a lot fans understand the interview. Other people think it’s funny and perhaps a little out of left field, but don’t question how four members wound up on a porn site like Burning Angel. Both attitudes are a pretty typical example of the MCR fandom’s ignorance about the New Jersey hardcore scene, as well reflecting general weirdness about sex work. 

Since I cannot turn my historian brain off, I wanted to provide some of the extremely interesting historical context behind the video. The post I had originally planned to make very, very briefly outlined how MCR ended up being interviewed by Joanna Angel, founder and longtime CEO of Burning Angel. But the more I looked into it, the more I fell down a rabbit hole. This eventually turned into something of a mammoth manifesto about women and sexuality in the late 90s hardcore scene that gave My Chemical Romance and Joanna Angel careers. I will warn you: this is long. But it’s also important historical background information that rarely gets discussed at all—especially by MCR fans.

(So, with all that said, please feel free to ask any questions about anything I say here! Sources for will be posted on a different post which I will link at the end, and I have been quite thorough, though not as thorough as I could have been.)

Tl;dr: Joanna Angel came up in the exact same scene as My Chemical Romance, Thursday, and Midtown, a scene which stigmatized open sexual expression, at the expense of women and queer people—especially those involved in sex work. When she started her porn site, Burning Angel, she applied the same DIY values that her peers did to their own bands, but faced violence and ostracization from a subculture much too repressed to embrace such blatant expression of female sexuality. In this context, the My Chemical Romance interview with Burning Angel in 2004 was not only a group of guys doing a favor for someone they had probably known for years at that point; it can also be read as a somewhat controversial act that pushed back against this aversion to sexuality, and that helped legitimize and popularize both the site and Joanna Angel’s career. 

Burning Angel: the Movie (2005)

Say you’re a diehard My Chemical Romance fan in 2005—if you really want to watch your favorite band discuss their porn-viewing habits, you’ll have to travel to either your local adult entertainment store or go to the hardcore porn site BurningAngel.com and order their first DVD, appropriately titled Burning Angel: The Movie. Once you have the disc, you’ll have to fast forward through several sex scenes and interviews with other bands before you arrive at what you wanted: the actress who you’ve just seen in hardcore sex scenes asking Gerard, Frank, Mikey and Otter questions about their preferences in adult entertainment.

The DVD was Burning Angel’s first attempt at more professional pornography, and Joanna’s first foray into full participation in filmed, live-action sex. Joanna Angel would later go on to be one of the most well-known porn stars of our time—in Virgin Territory (2006), for example, she played a lemon stealing whore; you might have seen the video—and Burning Angel would be credited with the popularization of the “alt” porn genre, which broke from the exploitative mainstream porn model and typically featured models representative of subcultures.

But in 2005 her alt porn empire was still in its infancy, and Joanna was still struggling to rectify her recent full expulsion from the local New Jersey hardcore social scene with her enduring devotion to DIY values—and the fact that members of the sexually repressed subculture that had ostracized Joanna were her site’s target audience.

Joanna Angel on the Scene

Any thoughts of a future career in adult entertainment and the last name Angel were far from her mind when Joanna Mostov enrolled in Rutgers University in 1998. 

Though she often pushed back against the wishes of her religious orthodox Jewish family, the extent of her adolescent rebellion had ended at sneaking out to punk shows and getting piercings her mother wouldn’t approve of. At Rutgers, Joanna quickly became enmeshed in the New Brunswick hardcore scene, putting her in the same circles as a host of people whose names you might recognize: Geoff Rickly of Thursday (who ran hundreds of shows out of his basement), Gabe Saporta of Midtown and Cobra Starship, and Alex Saavedra of Eyeball Records. 

Geoff Rickly: Well, you know, the funny thing is that, at the time, Joanna, who would later go on to form Burning Angel and become a famous porn star in her own right, was playing in her goth bands with chelsea haircuts and the basement shows. Like, her local goth band would play. And they’d bring out people and stuff, and I’d put touring bands on that show, and so it’s funny to me how, weirdly, DIY punk hardcore scenes and porn had weird associations then. [source: Going Off Track: Geoff Rickly, 2012]

The NJ hardcore scene was close-knit enough that while she only has documented friendships with some of these people, she had to have crossed paths with most of them multiple times (for example, Joanna was at the show on December 31, 1998 where Thursday and Midtown played their first real sets). She went to every show she could and hosted some in her own basement. 

While we don’t necessarily have a written record of her friendship with Frank Iero and Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance, the fact that Joanna attended plenty of shows in the North Jersey area and also spent a lot of time at the Eyeball House (Alex was a close friend; and Pencey Prep was on his label) suggests that, at the the very least, Joanna, Frank, and Mikey were aware of each other’s presence in these early years. They were peers in the same scene, just as they were with everyone else who frequented the same venues or played in the same basements.

For years, the hardcore scene mattered to her more than anything else; it was her social life and what she based her values upon. 

Those hardcore values and a growing curiosity about her own sexuality lead Joanna to sex-positive feminist activism and a writing internship with Nerve.com, an online magazine which explored topics related to sex and romantic relationships. From there, her interest in expressing her own sexuality continued to develop.

[Suicidegirls in 2001]

So, in 2002, when her roommate and friend asked her if she wanted to start a porn site that offered more explicit content than sites like SuicideGirls, which featured punk aesthetics and band interviews but stayed away from anything more than simple nudity, Joanna agreed.

BurningAngel.com went live in April 2002. It wanted to do things differently than other porn sites. While not necessarily pushing the boundaries of beauty standards, the site used models who were beautiful but in a more approachable, average sense. Joanna has said that since she had little experience even watching porn prior to starting the site, she wanted the site to mimic the kind of sex she was having with actors who looked like the people she was having sex with. 

Joanna: When we started the website, it was a reflection of ourselves. It still is to this day. There's band interviews on the website, the style of girl that we use is not your average typical porn star and the personality on the website is a little bit different. All the members interact with each other, all of the girls have blogs and profiles, and people become friends with each other. It's more of a community and a reflection of a subculture rather than just being a website with content to jerk-off to and never think about again. [source: Complex: Interview: Joanna Angel Talks Alt Porn, Piracy, And Her Blow-Up Doll, 2011] 

[Burning Angel’s homepage in June 2002]

Hardcore Punk Reacts to Hardcore Porn 

Her longtime involvement in the scene and her application of DIY ethics to her porn business did not mean that the hardcore culture actively nurtured Joanna Angel’s career in porn. In reality, many parts of the scene were actively hostile towards Joanna and the site once Burning Angel went live.

This backlash isn’t incredibly surprising within the context of late 90s hardcore, a subculture that by and large refused to acknowledge sexuality of any kind. 

The sexual repression in hardcore reflected several different aspects of its culture: a negative perception of women active in the scene; a reaction against the violence of tristate hardcore in the early 90s; and, more than anything else, the general privilege of those involved in the underground.

Like Joanna, Geoff Rickly, and Frank Iero, most people involved in New Brunswick hardcore were enrolled at Rutgers, and white, middle-class male college students dominated the scene. For many of them, applying DIY values to their own lives meant distancing themselves from their socioeconomic upper-hand. Consequently, the scene as a whole developed an attitude of asceticism, rejecting anything that served no purpose beyond pleasure or personal enjoyment. (Of course, it was easy for them to reject their social privileges, especially when they could just as easily cast off their aesthetic of poverty and self-denial for an adulthood of relative comfort.)

To do anything just because you enjoyed it, or because it brought you happiness in the moment, was seen to be a betrayal of hardcore’s higher intellectual goals—and that included sex. You can see this trend, for example, in lyrics from NJ hardcore bands, which focused on things like political issues or childhood traumas instead of the common themes of sexual and romantic desire found in mainstream music.

Joanna spoke about finding comfort in the general sexual repression of the scene because of her own adolescent insecurities:

Joanna: Me being very sexually not advanced and insecure, [90s hardcore] was the perfect place for me, because I could ignore [sexuality]. I was getting older, I don’t know, I wanted to explore myself more. So I began to write these graphic sex stories. My roommate, Mitch, knew about it, and I remember him getting a kick out of it. [source: Turned Out A Punk #127: Joanna Angel (Burning Angel)]

For another salient example, Geoff Rickly of Thursday has spoken about his own struggles with the hardcore scene’s repression, especially in regards to the shame he felt about writing sexually explicit stories for pay:

Geoff Rickly: You have to think, this is the 90s punk scene. It's not now. Nobody would openly talk about sex in DIY punk. It was such a repressed PC time, where — I mean, a lot of that stuff is my heart, like the political activism that was still such a part of punk, and actually just giving a shit about things that matter, and modes of how you're doing what you're doing. Those things seemed to matter back then, and I appreciated that side, but it was also so uptight. So repressed. [source: Going Off Track: Geoff Rickly, 2012]

While its general aversion to sexuality might have been born out of an initial desire to reform the violent misogyny of other hardcore cultures, it created the conditions for certain social problems to go completely unaddressed. After all, how can you address the rampant misogyny, homophobia, and sexual violence in your community if any acknowledgement of sexuality is taboo?

(For a brief but interesting perspective on the impact of hardcore sexual repression upon queer people in the scene, check out Episode #4 of Geoff Rickly’s podcast Dark Blue, in which Steve Pedulla and Norman Brannon discuss their experiences as gay musicians in the scene.)

Of course, these issues aren’t confined to the New Jersey hardcore, nor were they unique to the late 1990s. This particular brand of sex-averse misogyny reflects important threads within the feminism of the time which villainized open female sexuality—especially when it concerned sex work. Left-leaning spaces like music undergrounds adopted this sex-negative, misogynistic attitude as a part of their feminism—not in opposition to it.

In particular, the Riot Grrrl movement of the late 80s/early 90s pushed back against a culture (and a subculture) that shamed women for publicly expressing their sexuality. Following that, early fanzines and performance practices addressed the mistreatment of sex workers in hardcore as one way that female bodily autonomy was limited and women’s bodies were policed. Bikini Kill frontwoman and Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna has spoken about her past in sex work, the hostility she endured for openly discussing it, and the importance of that experience in shaping the form of Riot Grrrl’s protest. 

Kathleen Hanna: “Whenever we were written about in the press, I wanted my sex-work history to be part of the description, because I wanted other women whom I danced at clubs with (and who never knew my real name) to see themselves reflected in some way. A lot of women who are doing music now have been sex-trade workers, prostitutes, dancers; I thought it was really important that I didn’t hide that. But I also didn’t want to glamorize that experience in being a super-cool thing in itself. I just wanted other women who work in the sex industry to remember that we can be sex-trade workers and be philosophers, writers, musicians, artists, or whatever. [Andrea Juno, Angry Women in Rock (1996)]

Riot Grrrl gained significant traction and nation-wide attention. In the decade or so after Kathleen Hanna and her peers catalyzed the movement, bands like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile remained incredibly popular, and likely contributed a lot to shifting attitudes towards sexuality in music subcultures. 

Still, these sex-negative attitudes prevailed among enough people involved in local underground scenes that, when Burning Angel launched in 2002 and Joanna started marketing it in local hardcore spaces, the site received a lot of attention—both good and bad. The positive attention fueled the site and allowed it to expand beyond just photographs, text interviews, and low-budget personal sex tapes that characterized its early content. 

However, the negative attention Joanna and her site received was vocal, targeted, and occasionally involved literal physical violence. As Kathleen Hanna had faced moral condemnation for her time in sex work, Joanna Angel faced criticism from fellow members of her subculture who thought sex work to be completely antithetical to their social justice goals. She has spoken about how difficult it was to see a community she had cared about for years turn her back on her completely for engaging in a type of work that she found enjoyable, and that she thought could be done with moral integrity. 

Joanna Angel: People were calling me ugly, calling me all sorts of mean shit, how [Burning Angel was] making a profit, [we were] exploiting women, blah blah blah. And I was so bummed. I was like, you know, this isn’t fair! I always support every fucking band in the punk scene. Even if I don’t like the band, I support them—I go to their shows, I would hand out fliers for their shows. I thought it was like a code, in the punk scene, that it doesn’t matter whether you like it or not. If this is part of the scene, you accept it, and you help it, and you love it—and I thought that’s what you were supposed to do. I remember being very hurt, you know? I was like, dude, I didn’t violate any punk laws by starting this. My friend from my computer class is the one who put it online. All the other girls on the site—all three of them— were punk chicks and part of the scene. And I felt really bad; people were insulting the other girls, and I really thought I was starting this cool thing where girls could just explore their sexuality. And mind you, at the time, the beginning of Burning Angel was just photos, not even videos. People were getting all up in this upheaval because of a handful of naked photos on the internet. It’s crazy to think about now. [source: Turned Out A Punk #127: Joanna Angel (Burning Angel)]

Amidst the mounting antagonism and after an incident at Hellfest 2004, Joanna officially decided to leave the hardcore scene that she’d been involved with for over five years.

Joanna Angel: I remember going to Hellfest one year. Maybe it was like 2004?…these girls were throwing water balloons at us because we had a booth there. Because we used to get booths at some of these shows and sell tshirts. We didn’t even have any DVDs—we’d literally get in a booth and sell tshirts and hand out fliers and stickers. And these other girls were throwing water balloons at us and calling us sluts. I was like, “Hey, that sucks, can you stop doing that?” And one of my friends—he owned a record label. He owned Eyeball Records, Alex…he saw the girls picking on us, and he went over to the girls, and said, “Hey, can you cool it? They have a booth here—let them do their thing. They’re not gonna get in your way.” And then those girls and their boyfriends beat him up, and he wound up in the hospital. He almost died. It was terrible. And I was like, we have to get out here. Let’s just stay away. If we’re a porn site, let’s just be a porn site. Let’s promote ourselves with other porn companies; let’s step away for a little while. Everyone in the punk scene knows who we are. They’ve made their decision about if they like us or not. I’m still gonna interview bands, still gonna do that thing—but I’m done. [source: Turned Out A Punk #127: Joanna Angel (Burning Angel)]

Joanna and Burning Angel’s separation from the NJ hardcore scene in 2004 finally brings me to Burning Angel: The Movie, My Chemical Romance, and that interview.

So, 2004: after over two years spent largely behind the camera and slowly expanding her porn site, Joanna finally decided to get in front of the camera and produce a more intentionally crafted alt porn video that retained the feel of the website. Thus Burning Angel: the Movie was born. 

As Joanna explains in the interview, the general idea of the DVD was that different self-contained pornographic scenes would be interspersed with band interviews. One of the key features of Burning Angel, like Suicide Girls before it, was the band interviews subscribers could access alongside the porn, so it made sense to preserve this aspect of the site on the DVD experience. Joanna interviewed five bands in early 2005: Killswitch Engage, Eighteen Visions, Shadows Fall, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and, of course, My Chemical Romance—all bands that Joanna admired, and who had been involved in the same scene that she had recently left because of very real threats to her emotional and physical well-being.

Within this context, My Chemical Romance’s decision to participate in the Burning Angel interview was a statement, as they put their support behind an enterprise that was highly controversial within the social circle most immediately relevant to them. 

Fresh off the 2004 Warped Tour and promoted Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, My Chemical Romance might have appeared to be largely divorced from their scene of origin, but they still acted in response to those politics—politics that impacted American culture at large more than you’d think—in both intentional and incidental ways. 

That is not to say that MCR was being overtly political; they’ve made a clear effort to distance themselves from the clear-cut political imagery and goals of some of their peers in hardcore. Still, the band (Gerard especially) very obviously cared a lot about using their music and stage presence to express shades of sexuality that they perceived to be lacking from some forms of music.

Gerard: I also wanted, at the same time, [for] the record to be a testament to self-expression, and putting stuff in there like that, while not being a homosexual myself, but expressing myself in a homosexual way, is either going to push your buttons in a negative way or you’re going to identify with it. [AP: Well, this whole scene wants you to be sensitive, but not too sensitive.] It is extremely homoerotic, especially the whole emo-sensitive thing. Everyone’s wearing women’s pants; everyone’s got women’s haircuts; everyone’s wearing youth-medium shirts. I don’t want to come out and say it. It’s blatantly obvious. Wearing a leather jacket is an extremely masculine thing to do in this scene. Even the hardcore bands, the really hard ones, you see them in makeup and stuff. I like that. I think it keeps it dangerous. It keeps it exciting. In a way, sex has really been missing from rock, especially because of all the sensitivity. That’s what I really wanted to convey on the record, too. I wanted the record to be very dangerous and sexy at the same time. There’s such a lack of sex in music. It’s been more about getting in touch with your feelings and being there for each other, which is great, but it’s definitely lacking this sexual duality. [Source: Alternative Press #193, Aug 2004; emphasis mine]

Additionally, many of their moments of explicit sexuality on stage were designed to be somewhat incendiary and polarizing. 

But it’s important to remember that, just as late 90s New Jersey hardcore was not the first subculture with issues of sexual repression, My Chemical Romance does not represent the first attempt to push back at this asexual culture and definitely weren’t leading that particular conversation. Gerard took inspiration from artists already pushing those boundaries and incorporating sexual expression into their art. He has spoken, for example, about the impact of Riot Grrrl acts upon his music and stage presence (Joanna Angel has similarly pointed to bands like Bikini Kill as significant influences). These bands had already incorporated resistance against harmful sexual repression, values which Gerard and his band mates took on when they adopted their styles into My Chemical Romance.

(I also want to mention briefly that other significant people in the hardcore world have spoken out against pornography, such as Ian MacKaye of the formative post-hardcore band Fugazi. MacKaye owned Dischord Records, the definitive underground music label, to which a young Frank Iero unsuccessfully attempted to get his band Sector 12 signed. The matter of pornography and its role within the hardcore world was not one upon which you could maintain a neutral stance after, say, appearing on a porn DVD.)

As shitty as it was that they needed approval from the men in the scene, My Chemical Romance, along with other bands, supported Burning Angel, a new kind of porn, and helped legitimize Joanna Angel’s claim that what she was doing was not backwards or exploitative but had integrity. 

Have you had an issue with people you grew up with when they find out you're in the adult industry? Joanna: At first people had problem[s], but not anymore. Once the cool kids in bands said, "I think what she's doing is cool" all the others turned around. Everyone I ever respected didn't have an issue with it and all the stupid, annoying hardcore kids had a problem. For as much shit as I got, I also got a lot of support. [Source: Hustlerworld Interview: Joanna Angel]

I don’t mean to glamorize the porn industry or to depict Joanna Angel as some savior of female sexuality in the early 2000s. But, as Kathleen Hanna points out, sex work is legitimate work, and sex workers deserve to have workplaces that treat them with dignity and communities that recognize their humanity. The reality was that NJ hardcore as a community did not support sex workers. Fundamentally, these were the barriers that caused Joanna and Burning Angel to make an exodus from the local hardcore scene—and they are the attitudes we risk reproducing when we express discomfort that a band we admire has interacted with a sex worker.

My intentions with this post (which turned out longer than I had ever anticipated, so Jesus, thank you for reading) were to shed light on the historical context of one moment in My Chemical Romance’s history. I’ve found that the average MCR fan, even those with a specific fondness for their early years, doesn’t actually know much at all about it—so I hope this has given some clarity.

I’ll end on this note: Without bands supporting Burning Angel, who knows—we might have never seen the lemon stealing whore. At the very least, the culture surrounding porn would look a lot different. That might not mean it would look better or worse—though you can’t deny the role that Joanna Angel played, nor the role that bands from the New Jersey Hardcore scene like My Chemical Romance played in shaping the American culture of pornography. 

Find sources for this post here.

[acknowledgements: thank you so much for reading! my forever thanks, as always, to nic @raytorosaurus, sophia @sendmyresignation, vyn @bringmoreknives, and maddy @8thnotes for their continued cheerleading as i spent over a month writing this long, long post. additional thanks to wes @killrockstar for very kindly offering some incredibly helpful guidance about riot grrrl and sending me resources about kathleen hanna. and much gratitude to merlin @void-flesh and @transmascfrankiero for their feedback on the final draft of this essay.]

#mcr #my chemical romance #joanna angel #mcr meta #my post

[cripple-punk-dad]

Ok so im a baby punk and pretty clueless

Do you reckon you'd be able to give me some advice on the punk community and diy?

Sure thing! Also feel free to look through my #punk tag on my blog, I know I've got some pretty good stuff on there!

1st thing: punk is a music based subculture. If you don't listen to punk, then you're missing out on a significant portion of the culture. My personal favorite older bands are the Dead Kennedies, Pure Hell, and the Fishbones. I'm also obsessed with Streetlight Manifesto.

2nd thing: Punk is about going against societal norms in a violent and radical fashion. Refusing to fit in, striving to stick out, lifting up the downtrodden, spitting in the faces of those who would shove us down, etc. Punk is not giving two shits about what other people think about you. Punk is refusing to let nazis and other bigots into our communities and punching them out when they try to come in.

3rd thing: Steal.

4th thing: Dumpster dive! Pick up those pants on the side of the road! Wear clothing that you patched together with screws and dental floss. There are no rules here, do whatever you want forever as long as you aren't punching down. Nobody should ever come up to you and say you're not punk enough or that you're punking wrong, you just gotta give it your all.

Peace and love on planet punk rock unless you're a Nazi or a cop!

#punk #punk community #punk diy

[transfagquarterly]

FEELING SUBMISSIVE?

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TRANS FAG MANIFESTO

TRANS FAG QUARTERLY is a free DIY zine by and for TRANS FAGs and our friends. We print art, poetry, and prose. Anyone who identifies as or feels kinship with TRANS FAGGOTRY is welcome to submit to the zine and enjoy our offerings. The purpose of this zine is to create and share our most devastating, flirtatious, genderfucked, angry, loving work with our community, and to be inspired by the endless creativity, joy, and resilience of fellow trans folks.

In recent decades, queer political movements have strayed from their radical roots and fallen victim to assimilationist attitudes. We contend that respectability is not the way forward – as Leslie Feinberg wrote in Transgender Warriors, “we can never throw enough people under the bus to make them like us or whatever.” TRANS FAG QUARTERLY rejects the idea that we are just like straight people, and embraces all of our stunning, exuberant difference.

#t4t #t4t mlm #trans art #trans pride #gay art #indie zine #zine #tfq #queer artist

[k00291970]

Artist Research~ blackmuxic

Not much is known about this artist except for the fact that they live in Hong Kong.

Despite this I’m really inspired by their work. I found this artist on Redbubble whilst researching posters before attending the “Manifesto Poster Making Workshop” with Fiona.

I love the chaotic feel to their work, it’s rebellious and DIY spirit, blending strong and bold visuals, the hand drawn elements and unconventional design choices. I wanted to convey a raw and edgy aesthetic in my piece.

#art #artists on tumblr #design #diy #lsad #books & libraries #sex pistols #sid vicious #post punk #poster #alternative #music #siouxsie sioux #minor threat

[crimebird]

hi yall, i finally put my first two zines up as digital downloads on gumroad! they're pay what you want :> pls share & check them out

life at the end of the world 2021 is a lovingly made photo scrapbook about the diy music scene

ambien haircut is a collection of drawings, thoughts, poems, manifesto, and ??? made entirely on ambien

link: crimebird.gumroad.com

#zine #zines #diy scene #ambien #diy zine

[leechs]

yes there will be an opium diy guide in the junkie scholar manifesto 

[santacarlacarousel]

Which of the Lost Boys do you think is the most likely to…

Be mistaken for a celebrity?

Have visited the most states or even countries?

Have a collection of books that they may or may not have read entirely?

Speak a foreign language fluently?

Identify types of flowers?

Have the most body count?

Be a sadist?

Be the best at math?

Give someone the wrong directions (intentionally)?

Be an extra in a zombie movie?

Have read a Harlequin book?

Win at trivia?

Give the best hugs?

Fall from the tree?

Enjoy pineapple on their pizza?

Which of the Lost Boys do you think is the most likely to…

1. Be mistaken for a celebrity? Just imagining like modern AU and somebody comes up to David like “has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Kiefer Sutherland?” This works for canon timeline too but they’d probably be like “hey you look like the bully from Stand By Me.” (if I’m not making a joke about their actor I think the answer might actually be Paul just because he really has that like hair metal look going on, I could totally see someone mistaking him for [insert blonde rockstar here])

2. Have visited the most states or even countries? Hmmm my personal backstory for Marko has him hitchhiking cross-country to California, so if I’m being true to that, he’s the answer. 

3. Have a collection of books that they may or may not have read entirely? The fandom tells me Dwayne likes to read so I gotta pick him (he might not have read all of them but he’s at least read the communist manifesto lmao). Bonus points to Marko who I’m certain has a collection of diy punk zines. 

4. Speak a foreign language fluently? I think we got a couple options for this one. If you support Italian Marko he’s an obvious one. I think one of them is at least conversationally fluent in Spanish if they’ve been living in Santa Carla their whole lives, though, like maybe Dwayne. 

5. Identify types of flowers? This feels like David to me, he would absolutely surprise you by knowing the names of the night-blooming flowers you pass on a late-night walk with him.

6. Have the most body count? I love that with these guys I honestly can’t tell if you mean body count or body count. Kills I think it’s whoever’s been a vampire the longest, so probably David. If we’re talking sex, I… still think it’s David, actually, but Paul’s giving him a run for his money. 

7. Be a sadist? Once again I’m like, soooo, do we mean sexually or. homicidally. They’re all pretty brutal when they feed, though whether that gets their rocks off or if it’s just the bloodlust is anyone’s guess. 

8. Be the best at math? David maybe. This is hard for me because they’re all so gay. 

9. Give someone the wrong directions (intentionally)? Paul and Marko would absolutely do this to fuck with somebody and think it was so hilarious.

10. Be an extra in a zombie movie? Honestly I wanna say Marko, I feel like he would enjoy it. 

11. Have read a Harlequin book? Oh it’s somebody’s guilty pleasure for sure. Maybe Marko?

12. Win at trivia? I feel like they’d all have their strong suits when it comes to trivia. They’d make a pretty good bar trivia team actually lmao if they could rein in their competitiveness and not start fights with the other teams.

13. Give the best hugs? I think I need to hug each of them to test this out and best answer this question. My initial reaction is Dwayne though, he just looks like he’d give good hugs. 

14. Fall from the tree? Other than Michael you mean? I feel like Paul would. 

15. Enjoy pineapple on their pizza? Oh I feel like this would be such a debate amongst the boys. Paul would love it, Marko would think it’s sacrilege, David and Dwayne would refuse to pick sides but I think secretly they like it.

#the lost boys #tlb headcanons #tlb 1987 #david tlb #marko tlb #paul tlb #dwayne tlb #once again very thankful to this anon i love answering these

[marilynlennon]

Don’t Dictate: How DIY Punk Changed Music

Defiantly anti-establishment, punk’s DIY stance shocked the music industry in the 70s, but its influence can still be felt today – as uDiscover reveals.

Published on August 1, 2016 By Tim Peacock

After the UK’s premier punks, Sex Pistols, lambasted presenter Bill Grundy during their expletive-stuffed slot on Thames TV’s Today show in December 1976, the music industry received a short – but very sharp – shock.

Daily Mirror Filth And The Fury Headline - 300The immediate fallout was far-reaching. With the press having a field day, Sex Pistols became household names overnight, and the term “punk” (previously of cult-level interest) suddenly gained widespread exposure. Petrified promoters duly cancelled most of Sex Pistols’ scheduled Anarchy UK tour dates, and, early in January ’77, a beleaguered EMI eventually dropped the band from their roster, reputedly paying £40,000 for the privilege.

Suddenly, punk appeared too hot to handle. Yet while this defiant new genre’s very existence apparently posed a threat to the music industry’s established status quo, it ultimately dissipated with a whimper, rather than a bang. Having eventually signed to Virgin Records, Sex Pistols split in disarray in January ’78; their nearest rivals, The Clash, set their sights on America; by the turn of the 80s, “punk” had been neutered and hijacked by hordes of identikit, Mohican-sporting Exploited clones.

Punk Politics: Fighting The Power, From Sex Pistols To Anti-Flag

‘Metal Box’: Lifting The Lid On Public Image Ltd’s Seminal Second Album

‘Autoamerican’: How Blondie Became ‘The Most Modern Band’ On Earth

The Beatles - Now And Then

Sniffin' Glue - Now Form A Band - 300However, one aspect of punk’s anti-establishment ideology endures to this day: its inherent DIY ethos, most often identified with the quintessential punk commandment: “This is a chord, this is another, this is another… now form a band!” Incorrectly attributed to Mark Perry’s seminal punk fanzine Sniffin’ Glue (the quote actually appeared, along with the relevant chord shapes, in the January ’77 edition of punk ’zine, Sideburns), this impassioned plea to create – and promote – music independently is always associated with 1976, yet there are pre-punk precedents. In North America, for example, Californian power-pop label Beserkley had been operating outside of the mainstream since 1973, while Cleveland’s avant-garde pioneers Pere Ubu released their landmark debut single ‘30 Seconds Over Tokyo’ on their own Hearthan label in 1975.

DIY, however, figured prominently in punk’s manifesto right from the start.

#DIY aesthetic

[medusasbush]

read in january 2023

articles (ones behind a paywall are linked through webpage archive):

The irresistible voyeurism of “day in my life” videos

Toward a unified theory of “millennial cringe”

The NFL Isn’t Built for This

The DIY D-Day

Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities

Is modern life ruining our powers of concentration?

How to Ask Good Questions

The Woman Who Had Fun

Three Proposed New Species for the Avatar Sequels: Some Light Suggestions for James Cameron

Gentrification is Inevitable (and Other Lies)

Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?

Why all ​“eat the rich” satire looks the same now

Violent Delights (on serial killer media)

‘Romeo and Juliet’ Stars Sue Paramount for Child Abuse Over Nude Scene in 1968 Film

Want stronger friendships? Pull out your notepad.

How our solo homes became cocoons

Can't Buy Me Love: How Romance Wrecked Traditional Marriage

Love Boats: The Delightfully Sinful History of Canoes

Air travel: America’s magnum opus

The TSA is a waste of money that doesn't save lives and might actually cost them

You’re already on stolen land. You might as well pay rent.

How Lesbian Potlucks Nourished the LGBTQ Movement

A Toast to Wine Wednesday: Why the potluck is one of the most enduring and beautiful ways queer people make family.

Style Gone Wild: Why We Can't Shake the 1970s

Marriage should not come with any social benefits or privileges

‘Avatar’ and the Headache of High Frame Rate Filmmaking

The Number Ones: Beyoncé's Crazy in Love

Stick ‘em up! A surprising history of collage

On touching grass (which prompted a reread of Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny)

Like a Bitch in Heat: How I Embrace My Wildish Nature in Sex

How to Merge Sensuality with Sexuality

Startup Uses AI Chatbot to Provide Mental Health Counseling and Then Realizes It 'Feels Weird'

Something Bothering You? Tell it to Woebot.

Deeper into Movies: The Scream Gap

Joe Jonas Bucks Gender Norms By Embracing Injectable Ageism

Eat Shit, Kim Kardashian

Beyond Books: How can libraries help make the world a greener place?

society's sex binary + how pleasure can be the antidote

Ace Erotics: Or, Why You're Thinking About Sex and Eroticism All Wrong

Between Love and Tinder: Investigating the Erotic Friendship

The short instructional manifesto for relationship anarchy

What It’s Like Being a Relationship Anarchist

HBO’s Wokeified Scooby-Doo Reboot Achieves the Impossible

Why I’m Breaking Up With Non-Monogamy

The contagious visual blandness of Netflix

Why Does Everything On Netflix Look Like That?

Pre-Baby Conversations with Friends: Rituals for friendship evolution

How to Show Up For Your Friends Without Kids — and How to Show Up For Kids and Their Parents

Worshipping At The Altar of Artificial Intelligence

Why Influencers Shifted from Wellness to Skincare Content, Facial Contouring as Self-Rejection, Industralized Skincare's Self-Care Problem

Where Are All The Eyebrows? A brief look at the bleached brow trend.

books:

the ethical slut

tacky: love letters to the worst culture has to offer (finished)

little weirds (reread)

#love to read reviews for things im never gonna watch anyway (avatar + velma) #read lists #trying to read more keeping the list helps #hopefully the book portion will be longer in february... #s #articles

[pikespeakzinefest]

✴️IS PRESS✴️ ispress.co instagram.com/is.press 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: is PRESS publishes art books and zines on the nexus of art and everyday life that deploy accessible narratives with a sophisticated DIY aesthetic and letterpress covers. 📘📙📓 ✴️JEFF WASHENBERGER ART✴️ tumblr.com/jeffdraws instagram.com/ferret250 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: I work in the library by day, and make art by night (and by day). I hope I can use my powers to spread peace and happiness. 📘📙📓 ✴️JOHN DISHWASHER✴️ johndishwasher.org instagram.com/johndishwasher 🔹Los Angeles, CA 🔸Bio: Author of "The Zinester Manifesto: A Novel of the Underground." I made my first zine in 2017. 📘📙📓 ✴️KELS CHOO✴️ kelschoo.com instagram.com/kookookchoo 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Kelsey Choo (she/they) is a Hawai‘i-raised artist self-publishing comics, zines, & other art in Colorado. Working in a variety of mediums, their comics & illustrative works are inspired by nature, nostalgia, whimsy, but mainly monsters & magic. 📘📙📓 ✴️KILAH STORM✴️ kilahstorm.com instagram.com/kilahstorm 🔹Colorado Springs, CO. 🔸Bio: Kilah Storm is an author, illustrator and professional puppeteer. She has published a zine collection titled The Canine Bible and has hundreds of fans who follow her fan fiction: Avatar Strife and Harmony. All of her zines centers around animals. 📘📙📓 ✴️LIZ BROWN✴️ instagram.com/lilibet_wenge 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Liz Brown (she/her) is a librarian with a love for all things risograph. Originally hailing from Baltimore, MD, she occasionally writes dispatches from library conferences in a zine series called Notes from a Sub-Sub. She is the slow hiker who likes to pick up rocks to check for critters. She is also passionate about comics, creative reuse, games, Halloween, puppetry, and snail mail. 📘📙📓 ✴️MARA GERVAIS✴️ maragervais.bigcartel.com instagram.com/_maralane 🔹Davis, CA 🔸Bio: Mara Gervais is queer, gender-fluid non-binary, and from the Central Valley in California. They love zines, risograph printing, skateboarding, and eating spaghetti! 📘📙📓 ✴️MISS CBENAV✴️ cbenav.com/links instagram.com/miss_cbenav 🔹Midwest 🔸Bio: Cristina 'Miss Cbenav' is a recent graduate who utilizes art and writing to make illustrated stories, letting the crafty world of zines to explore her creativity. 📘📙📓 ✴️NASH'S COMIC✴️ 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: My name is Nash. I'm 11 years old. I came up with characters and make comics with my dad. He writes scripts and I do the art. I've sold my comics at Pike's Peak Zine Fest. People like them, and it was so fun. My new issue #4 has a new character. 📘📙📓 ✴️NIKO WILKINSON✴️ Nicois.gay instagram.com/nicothepoet tumblr.com/nicothepoet cohost.org/nicosuave 🔹Colorado Springs, CO. 🔸Bio: Nico Wilkinson is a poet/zinester/printmaker based in Colorado Springs, CO. They're the organizer of Keep Colorado Springs Queer, an open mic founded in 2016. They enjoy letterpress and relief printmaking. 📘📙📓

#PPZF2023 #PikesPeakZineFest2023 #PikesPeakZineFest #PPZF #ZineFest #Zines #Zinester #PPZF2023Exhibitor #IndieComics #Comics #SmallPress #SelfPublishing #DIY #PrintIsNotDead

[delacav]

#Repost @rachel.elspeth.gross ・・・ Today’s Inspiration: Paco Rabanne Paco Rabanne, who “Salvador Dalí simply called him the second genius of Spain,” designed distinctive, innovative haute couture that stood out in the era of Space Age chic. When Chanel said that Rabanne “was not so much a couturier but a metalworker,” it was snide, but Rabanne was using metal wire and plastic to “push the boundaries of acceptable clothing to wear on the street.” In 1979 he released Métal “a fragrance for young women who adore metal accessories.” He had a flighty reputation, which he didn’t help by making some wild public claims about his spiritual beliefs. Born outside San Sebastián, Spain in 1934, mom was chief seamstress at the Spanish Balenciaga atelier. Dad, a Colonel, was executed by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War. They became refugees in 1939 when they fled to France “where he [first] assumed the name Paco Rabanne.” Rabanne got an architecture degree from Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1964, covered the costs of his education by designing ostentatious costume jewelry (and buttons!) “for Givenchy, Dior and Balenciaga.” In 1965, at 30, he presented a collection of dresses he called “Manifesto: 12 unwearable dresses in a row; contemporary materials,” which included his first plastic dress. Rabanne “eschewed needles and thread for pliers.” His couture runway shows used music (which simply wasn’t done when he started the practice) and featured models of color. Rabanne showed his first couture collection in 1966, “complete with hair by Vidal Sassoon,” and then opened a boutique in 1966, “where he earned international repute for his metal-linked plastic-disc dresses, sun goggles and jewelry made of plastic.” Peggy Guggenheim was one of his most faithful, and first, clients; Donyale Luna, arguably the first Black supermodel, was a muse. Rabanne sold “Paco’s Sewing Kit” for DIY enthusiasts to remake one of his pieces at home (I need one, BADLY). He won the Golden Thimble in 1989, published a book of his spiritual beliefs in the 90s and retired in 1999. In 2005, an exhibition of his drawings was held in Moscow. He was made an Officer of the Legion d’Honneur in 2010. Rabanne's death was announced yesterday. https://www.instagram.com/p/CoRFqyEudtI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#repost

[geoffrard]

really do need to drop my frank iero diy manifesto